Documentation

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Documentation

• Giving credit to a source for words and ideas
  borrowed from a source
• Quotations
• Paraphrases/Summaries

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is using the words or ideas of
  another as ones own either on purpose or
  unintentionally (IVCC 2009-2011 Catalog 299).
• F on project
• F or W for course

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Forms of Plagiarism

• Using any source material (quoted, summarized, or
  paraphrased) without providing full documentation
• Failing to place direction quotation within
  quotation marks
• Paraphrasing or summarizing a source without
  fully changing the sources wording or form
• Using another students work as if it were the
  writers own

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Common Knowledge

• Basic information available in numerous sources
• Information you already know about your topic
• No documentation necessary
• When in doubt, document anyway!

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Documentation Format (MLA)

• Two Components for Documentation
• In-text Citation (Parenthetical Citation)
• Works Cited page

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In-Text Citation

• Information in the text of your essay that links
  each borrowed quote or paraphrase to a source
  listed on the Works Cited page

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What to Include

• authors last name
• page numbers (if available)
• frame (clear indication of beginning and end of
  borrowed info)

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Author beginning Page End

• According to Kissinger, In 1969, impatience
  with the rigors of the Cold War was pervasive in
  the West (403). 
• According to Kissinger, in 1969 the West was
  growing restless with the Cold War (403).

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Author, page at End

• According to one expert, In 1969, impatience
  with the rigors of the Cold War was pervasive in
  the West (Kissinger 403).
• According to a leading commentator, in 1969,
  the West was growing restless with the Cold War
  (Kissinger 403).

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Long Quotations (Secondary Sources)

• More than 4 lines in your essay
• Full-sentence lead-in generally followed by colon
• Indent 10 spaces (or two tabs)
• Omit quotation marks

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• McKay believes that the issue is important to
  national security
• The question of homeland security
  is a question not of politics, but of
  protection. . . . If we fail to do
  that, we cease to be a super power
  at all. (47)

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Quotes within Quotes

• If your quote already contains quotation marks,
  change them to single quotes
• Jones states, At its most fundamental level,
  what we call creative violence . . . gives
  children a tool to master their rage. Children
  will feel rage (43).

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Indirect Quotations

• Indirect QuotationsYour source by Jones quotes
  Smith. You quote Smith.
• According to Smith, Quote (qtd. in Jones 14).
• Jones quotes Smith as saying, Quote (14).

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In-text Citation for Story

• Author not needed (only one story, by Poe)
• Clarify which character is speaking if necessary
• OR Make it otherwise clear that you are referring
  to the story (at the carnival, in the catacombs,
  when Montressor sees Fortunato, etc.)
• Include page numbers